gary duer was the canadian ambassador to the u.s. and was premier of manitoba and a senior business adviser and gordon griffin was u.s. ambassador to canada from 1997- 2001 and he's a global vice chair of denton and a member of denton's global board and u.s. board. we hoped to have another with us who was a former canadian ambassador to the u.s. but alas, the weather did him in and even the sled dogs could not get him to us. here in washington. emily, over to you. >> hello. thank you all for joining us today. it's my pleasure to be here with three veterans of u.s. canada affairs to discuss the future of whatever we want to call it. i'll get their views on that later. key point. i think today we'll look at a few key themes and the if one is how the heck did we get here and how the heck did we get from this to hate tweets and what does this sort of current state of the bilateral relationship mean for the prospect of this agreement? i hope to draw on each of their expertise. where things were and where things are going. we're going to t